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When he arrived as the new general manager of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans two years ago, one of the first calls Andy Milovich got was from Gordon Hirsch, TicketReturn.com vice president of marketing, who wanted to discuss ways the team could shift more of its ticket sales online.
“My initial ...

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As the structure of signing bonuses began to take shape in the weeks following baseball’s amateur draft, two things became apparent: Pre-draft deals continue to affect the draft order, and the agents who advise the nation’s premier players refuse to let those deals cost their clients money.
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The man who would like to buy the Montreal Expos and move them to Charlotte says the team could break even financially while playing in temporary digs as a precursor to a downtown ballpark.
Don Beaver, the nursing home magnate who last year held a letter of intent to buy the Minnesota Twins, bas ...

The NCAA has found an ally in its crusade against those who wager on its games.
A bipartisan commission that spent the last two years studying the effects of gambling in the United States has recommended that wagering on college and amateur sports be abolished in Nevada, Oregon and Delaware, the ...

Miles Prentice, the New York lawyer who specializes in merging international banks, hasn't changed in the 14 months since he tendered a bid of $75 million to buy the Kansas City Royals. But his profile in Kansas City clearly has swung.
He has made his way around the civic and business luncheon c ...

When Cincinnati Reds managing executive John Allen received the call asking whether he'd be willing to play six games, rather than three, against the Cleveland Indians as part of this season's interleague schedule, he leaped at the opportunity.
"We were excited to do it," said Allen, who was off ...

When the operations manager of Ford's worldwide motorsports efforts attended the launch of the company's Lincoln LS model last year, he was struck by the familiarity of the faces that surrounded him.
Five former members of Ford's Formula One engineering support team were giving seminars about th ...

There are 3.4 million people in metropolitan Montreal, making it the second largest city in Canada, large enough to walk in similar statistical company with Atlanta, Detroit and Houston.
Yet on many nights, fewer than 5,000 of Montreal's 3.4 million find their way to Expos games.
The covered, ...

When a company that occupies a significant presence in a region closes its doors and stops paying its employees as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, it's likely to cause some outcry. When the founder and president of that company also runs a sports franchise that pays its premier player $12.5 ...

The man whose clients have rewritten the economic order of baseball's amateur draft in recent years says he doesn't expect to see further strides taken in that direction this year.
Scott Boras, the agent who in the last two years navigated J.D. Drew and Rick Ankiel to contracts that boosted bonu ...

Mike Veeck has resigned as marketing czar of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, saying that his proper place now is not in baseball but by the side of his 7-year-old daughter, Rebecca, who is going blind.
Veeck, known for his outlandish promotions throughout the minor leagues, will remain on staff as a m ...